2025 Erosion and Sediment Control Field School
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 to Thursday, November 13, 2025
Registration is full. Please email info@calsalmon.org to be placed on the waitlist.
SRF partnered with Pacific Watershed Associates to offer an Erosion and Sediment Control Field School November 11 - 13, 2025 in San Luis Obispo County. This technical field course is a part of our Central Coast BMP Education Series and is funded by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Fisheries Restoration Grant Program. The agenda is designed to assist planners, regulators, environmental scientists, engineers, and landowners to improve environmental protection by identifying, assessing, and ultimately designing erosion control projects.
Presentations inluded:
- Identifying and Characterizing Problems on Hillsides Adjacent to Road Networks, Shannon Weese, PWA
- A Road Map to Resilient Ranch Infrastructure: Stenner Creek Watershed Enhancement Project, Hallie Richard, CSLRCD
- The Process of Conducting a Road Evaluation and Upgrade Plan, Thomas Leroy, PWA
- Identifying and Characterizing Problems at Stream Crossings, Shannon Weese, PWA
- Treatment Options at Stream Crossings, Shannon Weese, PWA
- Roads Workshop Fundamentals of Road Impacts, Identifying and Characterizing Road Related Erosion and Sediment Delivery, Thomas Leroy, PWA
- Road Surface Upgrading Treatments, Thomas Leroy, PWA
There was a field tour component that visited sites on Cal Poly property that complemented classroom topics, including a review of techniques to identify, characterize and treat road related sediment sources which can be used to create prioritized action plans for wildland road systems.
See the Resources tab for PDFs and guides.
Arroyo Grande
, CA
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